US Election Coverage 2008

[Icadon]

This column will be published on FOXNews.com on August 22, 2008.

In following a presidential race, the most important way to understand what is happening is to follow voter responses to open ended questions. Those are questions which ask "What do you like the most about Barack Obama?" and "What do you like the least about Barack Obama." These questions, which let voters tell pollsters what they think in their own words offer the best way to figure out what is really going on.

Fortunately, the Fox News tracking polling for the election has now included these questions and the results offer an excellent insight into the current state of the race.

Oddly for a race that has been going on for two years and holds the nation rapt in attention, the contest is still in a very, very primitive phase. Voters' level of awareness of the issues or of the candidates is quite limited. Neither campaign has done much to project its issues or its message and the attacks on one another, which increasingly dominate the dialogue, show little resonance among most voters.

Overwhelmingly, the thing voters like the most about Obama is that he is new, a fresh face, for change, intelligent, inspiring, a good speaker, outspoken, and charismatic. 57% of all voters use one of these phrases to describe him, including 48% of Republicans and 55% of Independents. But only 13% of all voters cite any specific position of Obama's including his signature opposition to the war in Iraq. Only 2% mentioned the war in citing what they liked about Obama and only 1% cited the economy and jobs. So Obama is still a personality running for office and the voters have yet to identify him with any policy or proposal. And the one identification he used to have -- opposition to the war -- has faded. But Obama has vast potential appeal. Even though the Fox News poll gave him only a three point lead over McCain, four voters in five cite something they like about Obama in open ended questions (including 66% of Republicans and 78% of Independents).

Opposition to Obama is also centered on fears of his youth, inexperience, and lack of qualifications. 31% of all voters, 33% of Independents, and 29% of Democrats cited this concern in open ended questions. But just as Obama's positive ratings do not include much in the way of specific mentions of his issue positions, so his negatives don't either. Only 19% of all voters said they disliked his liberalism, connection with Rev Wright, radicalism, religious views, elitism or even said they disagreed with him about anything. Another 8% disliked his flip flops on issues. =2 0But the potential for Obama to fall apart is also enormous. 78% of all voters, including two-thirds of all Democrats and four-fifths of all independents cited something about Obama that they did not like.

So everybody basically agrees that Obama is a new fresh face who advocates change but is too inexperienced and lacks some or all of the qualifications needed for the job. The question of which part of this statement outweighs the other is the issue on which the election hinges.


But just as Obama has not succeeded in identifying himself with any specific issue, idea, or proposal (and voters might be asking, as they did of Gary Hart, "where's the beef?) so McCain and the Republicans have failed to link him to extreme liberalism, radicalism, Rev Wright or any of the identifications they have been trying to pin on the Democrat. Both campaigns have almost totally failed to move past square one on Obama.

For McCain, it's pretty much the same story. 33% of all voters see him as experienced and qualified (including 26% of Democrats and 34% of Independents). 10% like his military record. 7% praise his honesty. And 9% say they approve of how he would handle foreign policy.

But McCain's negatives are the flip side of his positives. 24% of all voters and 26% of Republicans and 20% of independents say he is too old. And another 23% feel he is too conservative, too close to Bush, or too supportive of the war. 4% criticize his flip flops.

So Americans of all parties have reached a consensus that Obama is young, charismatic, intelligent, articulate, and in favor of change but also that he is too inexperienced, possibly too liberal, and less qualified than they would like

And they also have come to a common agreement, also cutting across party lines, that McCain is experienced, able, an heroic veteran, and honest but also that he is too old, possibly too conservative, and perhaps too pro-war.

Just as 80% of all voters find something to praise in Obama and 78% find something to criticize, so 80% have something good to say about McCain and 82% have some criticism to make.

This broad agreement on the pros and cons of each candidate and the willingness of even their partisans to consider their negatives and of their enemies to concede their positives is highly unusual and underscores why the race is so close.

But it also suggests that it is very volatile. Either campaign can paint the other with issue negatives if they start going about it effectively.

It is a glaring omission that only 1% cite Obama's tax positions as a negative and that nobody mentioned his opposition to offshore oil drilling.

Likewise, how odd that only 15% cited specifically McCain's support for the war and his connection with Bush as a negative.

On the other hand, neither Obama's health care nor McCain's energy proposals have registered with the voters and few can name any specific issue position for either man of which they approve.

For a campaign that has been going on for two years, how odd that voter opinions of the candidates are still so unformed and general.

 

[Rev. Kishoka]

Jamani mwacheni Nyani na "Baba yake wa Kambo"!

It is two things that unfolds now. Either McCain straight talk and identifying himself with common man is just bunch of bull crap that he is rich to the point he is not sure of how many freakin homes he owns or McCain has memory lapse!

Question becomes how are we going to have a US president who either does not know how many nukes US have or has memory lapse to remember?

 

[Nyani Ngabu]

Jamani mwacheni Nyani na "Baba yake wa Kambo"!

It is two things that unfolds now. Eitha McCain straight tal and identifying himself with common man is just bunch of bull crap taht he is ricd to the point he is not sure of how many freakin homes he owns or McCain has memory lapse!

Question becomes how are we going to have a US president who either does not know how many nukes US have or has memory lapse to remember?

This is a very weak argument! By the way, did you see the Straight Talk Express at Saddleback? It was on fire and expect the same in the debates....

 

[Icadon]

When Barack Obama arrived at the Democratic National Convention eight years ago, he was a politician in need of clout.

He had just been trounced in his bid for Congress. His credit card was rejected at the car rental counter. He couldn't snare a floor pass, so he ended up watching most of the speeches on TV monitors in the arena. And he went home early.

His political future was uncertain.

Four years later, Obama attended the 2004 Democratic convention. This time, though, there was a sea change: He had been tapped to be the keynote speaker, a coveted spot for up-and-comers - and as a U.S. Senate nominee generating political buzz, he fit the bill.

Obama still was a lowly state lawmaker, a virtual unknown to the cheering delegates gathered in the Boston convention hall that July night. But his words lit up the crowd.

Now jump forward to the 2008 Democratic convention.

On Aug. 28, Barack Obama will step on the stage at the 50-yard line at the Denver Broncos football stadium before a crowd of 75,000 to accept the Democratic nomination for president. He will be at the apex of American politics - a phenomenon who smashed every fundraising record, drew astounding crowds, and made history.

How did this man go so far so fast?

He's a natural, obviously - a candidate with political savvy and electrifying oratory, enormous confidence and calm, fierce ambition and a keen sense of timing, and an uncanny knack of making friends and forging connections in all the right places.

"He's just a complete political talent," says Abner Mikva, a former Illinois congressman and federal judge who is an Obama mentor. "He likes to get along with people. He likes to listen to them."

Obama has something else going for him, too - good fortune.

"He is a lucky politician," Mikva notes. "A lucky politician is one who knows how to take advantage of a break when he gets it."

But Barack Obama also has a life story unlike that of any man ever nominated for the nation's highest office. And while his unconventional experiences have made him an unconventional candidate, they also have helped fuel his extraordinary rise.

"It is one of the most unlikely political biographies," says Sen. Dick Durbin, a fellow Illinois Democrat and Obama friend. "Look at his life and there are half a dozen times when he could have failed ... being abandoned by his father, his (troubled) adolescent years. ... But he seems to weather adversity better than most."

___

"It's a leap electing a 46-year-old black guy named Barack Obama," the Illinois senator told a crowd in July at a Missouri fundraiser.

It's not just his biracial roots and foreign-sounding name that set him apart.

It's his youth spent wrestling with questions about his racial identity and an African father he barely knew. It's his admission that he dabbled in drugs as a teen, the kind of revelation, made in his memoir, rarely divulged by politicians.

It's his odyssey from low-prestige community organizer in the poverty-ravaged corners of Chicago to the high-powered corridors of Harvard Law School.

And it's his rapid climb up the political ladder, starting in a sleepy prairie state capital where no one has made it to the White House since Abraham Lincoln.

"He has this unusual combination of life experiences that don't fit in any stereotype," says Valerie Jarrett, his close friend and adviser.

The first chapters of Barack Obama's life story are familiar by now.

The Kansas-born mother, Stanley (her father wanted a boy) Ann Dunham. The Kenyan-born father, Barack Obama Sr. Their meeting at the University of Hawaii, their marriage, the birth of Barack - "blessed" in Arabic - on Aug. 4, 1961. The father's departure two years later to study at Harvard, his return just once when his son was 10.

The exotic childhood in Indonesia, homeland of his stepfather, Lolo Soetero; the exposure to poverty and beggars, crocodiles and roasted grasshopper.

And then, after his mother's second marriage broke up, the return to Hawaii, where the young Obama - then known as Barry - enrolled in the prestigious Punahou School, a private academy in Honolulu.

Back then, there were no obvious signs (unless you count a grade school essay) that pointed to politics as his destiny.

As a teen, Obama was smart and liked to read but "he wasn't particularly driven or ambitious," says his half-sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng. "He wasn't part of student government. He wasn't in any AP (advanced placement) classes. He was a young man concerned with ... hanging out with his buddies, playing basketball, body surfing and eating in excess."

When his mother's work as an anthropologist took her back to Indonesia, Obama stayed behind for high school, living with his maternal grandparents, Madelyn, known as Tutu or Toot (Hawaiian for grandparent), and Stanley, or Gramps.

He played golf and poker, he perfected his left-handed pump shot on a playground into the night (he had a minor role on his school's championship basketball team), he sang in the choir, he listened to the music of Earth Wind & Fire.

In some ways, he was a typical teen. In other ways, he was anything but: His mother was far away, his father was gone forever, he had already lived in a Third World nation and was growing up in the melting pot of Hawaii - all of which shaped him into someone who could easily adapt to change.

"My mother was pretty instrumental in helping Barack cultivate this internal flexibility," Maya says. "After the childhood we had, different could never be jarring or dislocating."

Those early years, though, were difficult for Obama.

"I spent much of my childhood adrift," he said in a recent speech. "Growing up I wasn't always sure who I was or what I was doing."

He struggled with questions about his race and identity, and in his memoir, "Dreams from My Father," he described how he turned to drugs - including marijuana and cocaine - to "push questions of who I was out of my mind."

But he concealed that turmoil.

"He always has been a lone traveler," his half-sister says. "He's a gregarious guy and he loves people, but he also loves his own company. He doesn't expect those closest to him to be all things to him."

His personality, she adds, doesn't fit into one neat category.

"He is equal portions laid-back and deeply focused," Maya says. "It's not all fire inside of him. There are wide cool pools of water as well."

At Occidental College in Los Angeles, Obama - who started using his given name, Barack - took his first plunge into politics, speaking at an anti-apartheid rally.

Obama was confident and casual on campus - he favored flip-flops, shorts and a trim Afro - and not one to dominate dorm discussions about political issues, such as the Soviet Union's war in Afghanistan.

"He didn't get in people's faces," says Ken Sulzer, who lived in the same dorm and is now a California lawyer. "He wasn't trying to get people's goats or get a rise out of them."

Sulzer also remembers one particular Obama talent. While Sulzer took pages of notes during a class on political thought, Obama, he says, "would have two very pithy paragraphs and it would all be in there. ... He was a very good writer. He was succinct."

But Occidental was a small liberal arts college and Obama wanted to expand his horizons, so he transferred across the country to Columbia University in New York.

"I didn't socialize that much. I was like a monk," he said in a 2005 Columbia alumni magazine interview.

Obama graduated with a political science degree and held a few jobs in New York. It was there he received a call from an aunt in Nairobi notifying him his father had been killed in an auto accident. The news eventually led Obama on a journey to Kenya and a tearful visit to his father's grave.

After New York, Obama headed to a city where he knew no one, taking a low-paying job, facing a formidable challenge - motivating poor people to participate in a political system that had traditionally shut them out.

Going to Chicago proved to be a much smarter move than it looked at first.

___

Starting out as a $12,000-a-year community organizer, Obama walked the run-down streets of the South Side that had been decimated by the loss of steel mills and factory jobs.

Working for the Developing Communities Project, Obama met with black pastors and tried to mobilize people to speak up for themselves - whether it was lobbying for a job training center or cleaning up public housing.

He established an easy rapport with people in the community, many of whom treated him like a son (they teasingly called him "baby face.")

"He would tell us you've got to do things right, you've got to take the high road," says Loretta Augustine-Herron, one of the project founders. "He would talk about no permanent friends, no permanent enemies. He would say, 'Don't get personalities involved.'"

Obama - who calls his organizing work "the best education I ever had" - became a skilled conciliator, says Gerald Kellman, the man who hired him.

"He became very effective at getting people who did initially did not get along ... to work together and build alliances," Kellman says. "He found a way to be tough and challenging when he didn't like something. At the same time, he was not one to burn his bridges with people."

Chicago was the city where Obama put down roots. He joined the Trinity United Church of Christ and became friends with its pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, whose incendiary comments about race and America would later raise questions about Obama's judgment and threaten to derail his presidential campaign. (Obama denounced the remarks after they created a national uproar; he no longer attends the church.)

Chicago also was Obama's political boot camp, where he learned how to win over skeptics who wondered why that tall, skinny guy was at their door when Harold Washington, the first black mayor, was in City Hall.

"Black people would say, 'Harold will take care of the problem. Why do we need a community organizer?'" recalls Mike Kruglik, a fellow organizer. "He'd say, 'We have to build the power ... we can't trust any individual politician.'"

Obama was not all work. He attended Chicago Bulls games and wrote short fictional stories that evocatively captured the feel of the streets. (He later wrote two best-selling books, one of them a memoir.)

Obama also remained close to his family. After her father died, Maya, who is nine years younger, says Obama "really took on the role of a father," taking her on college tours, introducing her to jazz, blues and classical music - and, much later, consoling her when their mother died of ovarian cancer at age 53.

After three years, Obama had become increasingly pragmatic about what he could accomplish as an organizer. "The victories were small, they changed peoples' lives, but they didn't change American society and he wanted to do that," Kellman says.

Obama made a giant leap from the gritty South Side to the heady atmosphere of Harvard Law School, the training ground for America's elite. He made history there, as the first black president of the Harvard Law Review, perhaps the most prestigious law journal in the nation.

The distinction brought a wave of publicity. In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Obama said a Harvard education "means you can take risks. You can try to do things to improve society and still land on your feet."

After his first year, Obama was a summer associate at a corporate law firm in Chicago where his adviser was Michelle Robinson, another Harvard law graduate and a product of a working-class family. They later married, and had two daughters, Malia, now 10, and Sasha, 7.

As Obama prepared to leave Harvard, job offers poured in.

But he already had a plan. He would return to Chicago for a political career.

___

At first, he chose a behind-the-scenes job.

Obama ran a voter registration drive that added tens of thousands to the rolls. "He was very straightforward and had a no-nonsense, all-the-cards-on-the-table approach," recalls Sandy Newman, founder of the national group, Project Vote!

Obama also began carefully mapping out a path that positioned him for public office.

He joined a small, politically connected boutique law firm that did civil rights litigation. He and his wife, Michelle, lived in Hyde Park, the racially mixed neighborhood around the University of Chicago that is home to progressive politics, intellectuals and a sprinkling of Nobel Prize winners.

"By choosing to move to Hyde Park, he moved in an area where an independent can come out of nowhere to win," says Don Rose, a veteran political strategist. "By choosing to work at (that law firm), he was making a political statement to where he stood."

Many people were interested in Obama's ascent in politics, including real estate developer Antoin "Tony" Rezko, whose friendship and financial help would later provide ammunition to the senator's critics and opponents.

Rezko raised funds for many Illinois politicians, including Obama. He was recently convicted of using his influence with the administration of Gov. Rod Blagojevich to launch a $7 million fraud and extortion scheme.

Obama was accused of no wrongdoing and barely mentioned in the trial, but his association with Rezko proved an embarrassment - it was mentioned during the debates - in the primary season. Obama gave $250,000 from Rezko-related contributions to charity.

Obama also broadened his circle of acquaintances, impressing influential Democrats and party donors who proved invaluable in his campaigns.

Obama was "a great networker," Rose says. "He worked all the right circles. If you don't like the guy, he's a calculating politician. If you do, he's a smart, methodical worker. He does nothing that's different from most politicians, even the reform politicians. The difference is he's extraordinarily gifted. ... His greatest capability is he never makes the same mistake twice."

But that skill was nothing without a political opportunity. While waiting for one, Obama became a lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School. He taught constitutional law. He was popular with students and faculty, though some found him a bit remote.

"He's a great conversationalist and a good listener," says Richard Epstein, a law school professor who was not a close friend. "But he never tips his hand to what he thinks. You feel you're on stage and have to perform. ... At the end of the day, you don't know whether you've changed his mind or not."

In 1996, Obama was elected to the state Senate, but as a member of the Democratic minority, his legislative proposals were consistently thwarted by Republicans. Some dismissed him as an ivory tower liberal.

"Law professors, especially those from a place like the University of Chicago, are viewed with a jaundiced eye" in the Illinois legislature, says state Sen. Kirk Dillard, a Republican and Obama friend. "Some members of both parties thought that Barack was longwinded and a tad aloof and arrogant. Not me."

It didn't help that one issue he tackled was ethics reform.

Dillard recalls one prominent Democrat saying to Obama: "'How much money do you have in your campaign fund? You don't have two nickels to rub together.'"

"It's a little ironic today," Dillard adds, referring to Obama's stunning success of raising an unprecedented $390 million during his presidential run.

Obama won over many lawmakers in nearly eight years in Springfield. He played in weekly poker games, befriending suburban and white rural legislators. He also had an important ally in an old-school Chicago Democrat who became Senate president when the party took control of the chamber, a change that increased Obama's influence.

Obama had several legislative successes. He passed measures that limited lobbyists' gifts to politicians, helped expand health care to poor children and changed laws governing racial profiling, the death penalty and the interrogation of murder suspects.

He generally was a liberal, but he reached across party lines to work with Republicans.

"Barack can compromise without giving up his principles," says Dillard, who appeared in an early Obama campaign commercial and is a John McCain convention delegate. "He's a realist and he knows when to fold his cards."

Obama stumbled badly, though, in 2000 when he challenged Rep. Bobby Rush, a former Black Panther member with deep roots in the community.

During that contest, Obama was dogged by the question raised by some pundits and black politicians - whether he was "black enough" for the district.

Obama says there never has been any question about his being black. In his book, "The Audacity of Hope," he wrote about how race has shaped his own life, facing indignities such as security guards trailing him in stores or people mistaking him for a parking valet.

"I know what it's like to have people tell me I can't do something because of my color, and I know the bitter swill of swallowed-back anger," he wrote.

But in that congressional campaign, Obama was seen as the outsider. Rush, the insider, crushed him by 31 percentage points in the primary.

Two years later, Obama set his sights on another office: U.S. Senate.

His friend, Valerie Jarrett, was skeptical. "'My gosh, you can't lose two races in a row. You'll be done in politics,'" she recalls telling him. "He said, 'If it's OK with me, it should be OK with you. I'm not afraid of losing.'"

A series of breaks helped propel Obama to a landslide win.

Months later, Obama impressed Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry during a joint campaign appearance in Chicago, leading to his stirring keynote speech.

In 17 minutes, Obama went from an obscure state lawmaker to a force in national politics.

"It didn't surprise me at all," Kerry says. "If you have the ability to communicate ... and the timing is right, the moment is right, things come together. All those ingredients were there for Barack."

"I may have opened the door," Kerry adds. "He's the one who walked through it and did the heavy lifting."

___

When Barack Obama announced his presidential candidacy 18 months ago at the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Ill., he was still unknown to most Americans.

A freshman senator, Obama had been in Washington just two years - not long enough to leave much of a footprint. But even before he took office, some political phrasemakers started calling him a "rock star."

He appeared on numerous magazine covers, won two Grammys for recording his best-selling books, made TV appearances, received hundreds of invitations a week and traveled the country in 2006, stumping for Democratic candidates - building up chits along the way.

The spotlight only grew during the primary season, prompting a mocking TV ad this summer from John McCain, the GOP candidate, trying to portray Obama as a celebrity without the gravitas to be president.

But Obama proved to be an enormous draw on the campaign trail, packing arenas with overflow crowds as he promised an end to the Iraq war, a new era of bipartisanship in Washington and "change we can believe in."

Though he did not focus on race, it inevitably became part of the campaign as he racked up huge support among black voters.

His newcomer's status and compelling biography have helped and hurt him on his way to the nomination.

On the downside, he has been forced to spend much time debunking bogus rumors - spread on the Internet - that he is a Muslim, won't recite the Pledge of Allegiance and didn't use a Bible when he was sworn into the Senate.

But his youth and lack of seniority - Republicans call it inexperience - have been an asset, too, especially among young voters. They've been a key bloc of supporters and see Obama as a fresh face who can jolt Washington out of its well-worn groove.

As part of the Facebook generation, these younger voters have been among the more than 2 million people who've poured donations - many of them contributing small amounts - into a campaign that has become a financial juggernaut.

"He tapped into the new technology better than any candidate ever has, he knew what to do with the Internet and e-mail in a way no candidate has," says Durbin, his fellow Illinois Democrat. "He has turned it into an art form."

In Denver, though, Obama will turn to the old-fashioned powers of speechmaking when he steps on stage to address the crowd.

And this time, the tens of thousands of people will know exactly who he is.

 

[Nyani Ngabu]

Hahahahaaaa...Obama has stopped advertising in eight red so-called battlegorund states including GA, VA, and NC......like he had any chances to begin with!!!

 

[Susuviri]

We Nyani Ngabu: babu yako ulikuwa unamtetea ukisema Obama naye ni tajiri: Compare this:

One of the clumsy arguments that the McCain camp tried to make today in hopes of slowing down the media freight train over not knowing how many homes he and his wife, Cindy, own was that Barack Obama (D) is also a rich guy who lives in a mansion himself, just like McCain. I believe the term they used was "a frickin' mansion."

Well, there's just one problem with that argument. These guys aren't even in the same class.

Earlier this year, the nonpartisan Sunlight Foundation did an analysis of the net worth of each of the 535 members of Congress based on their personal financial disclosure.

Guess which one is worth about $36 million and which one is worth $799,000?

According to my trusty calculator, that means McCain's net worth is more than 45 times greater than Obama's.

So much for that argument...

 

[Susuviri]

Hahahahaaaa...Obama has stopped advertising in eight red so-called battlegorund states including GA, VA, and NC......like he had any chances to begin with!!!

Mh, he has stopped for good au ndo anabadili adverts zake na kutoa mpya pamoja na DNC in anticipation of his VP? Maana naona unaweka vitu hapa kama facts. Naomba quote au link basi.....

 

[Nyani Ngabu]

Mh, he has stopped for good au ndo anabadili adverts zake na kutoa mpya pamoja na DNC in anticipation of his VP? Maana naona unaweka vitu hapa kama facts. Naomba quote au link basi.....

Hii hapa: http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/08/22/obama-stops-advertising-in-red-battleground-states/

 

[The Truth]

For the sake of humanity, I hope Barack Husein Obama inherited most of his genetics from his mother's side. I have not heard one positive quality from his Kenyan side of families. Starting from her mom's sperm donor (i.e. his deadbeat father) to his half brother they all questionable characters in my book. His deadbeat father, Obama Sr. abandoned his responsibilities as a father of Barack Husein. So far it appears Barack Husein Obama has not demonstrated this shameful trait when it comes to his own children (let's hope this trait skipped a generation). Also since Barack Husein Obama's mother died from cervical cancer (which we now know can be caused by genital warts virus, a sexually transmitted disease), his father probably gave his mother that disease. He couldn't keep it in his trousers. This trait I can't rule out yet because we don't know much about Barack Husein Obama. In short his Kenyan side of the family seems to be full of losers and questionable characters and if he becomes president, we better hope he inherited as little from that side of his family as possible.

 

[YNIM]

For the sake of humanity, I hope Barack Husein Obama inherited most of his genetics from his mother's side. I have not heard one positive quality from his Kenyan side of families. Starting from her mom's sperm donor (i.e. his deadbeat father) to his half brother they all questionable characters in my book. His deadbeat father, Obama Sr. abandoned his responsibilities as a father of Barack Husein. So far it appears Barack Husein Obama has not demonstrated this shameful trait when it comes to his own children (let's hope this trait skipped a generation). Also since Barack Husein Obama's mother died from cervical cancer (which we now know can be caused by genital warts virus, a sexually transmitted disease), his father probably gave his mother that disease. He couldn't keep it in his trousers. This trait I can't rule out yet because we don't know much about Barack Husein Obama. In short his Kenyan side of the family seems to be full of losers and questionable characters and if he becomes president, we better hope he inherited as little from that side of his family as possible.

duh, sijawahi kuona ponjoro mzushi kama wewe bwahahahaha!! mama yake Obama alikufa kwa Ovarian Cancer na sio Cervical Cancer....na Ovarian Cancer haisababishwi na hizo genital warts/HPV, kwahiyo sio sexually transimitted!! nilishakuonya huko nyuma kuwa zicheck facts zako kabla ya kubandika!! unajitia aibu na watu kutokuchukulia siriasi kwa huu utoto wako!!

sijui ni kiasi gani unajua kuhusu Cervical Cancer!? anywayz hiyo ni topic nyingine kwa siku nyingine....una-sound kama ancestors wako walitokea kwenye zile slums za Calcuta au Madrassa, kule ambapo watu(ponjoros) wanakunya na kukojoa ndani ya movie theater(s)...yaani "upstairs" kuna gogoro. shame on you Manji's Supporter, you're today's worst in the world....

have a nice day.

 

[Nyani Ngabu]

Duh! CNN wamempata Onyango na wamefanya naye intavyuu. This is not a good look for Obama. The guy (0nyango Obama) lives in abject poverty (under a $1 a month). I mean, his millionaire brother can't even give him $100.00 a month? It's damn shame....

 

[YNIM]

Duh! CNN wamempata Onyango na wamefanya naye intavyuu. This is not a good look for Obama. The guy (0nyango Obama) lives in abject poverty (under a $1 a month). I mean, his millionaire brother can't even give him $100.00 a month? It's damn shame....

duh! na wewe nae unaingia mkenge na stories kama hii? siamini yaani.

 

[BAK]

It's either Senator Clinton or Senator Biden, but in politicking anything can happen. In few hours the whole World will know OB's choice.

 

[Nyani Ngabu]

duh! na wewe nae unaingia mkenge na stories kama hii? siamini yaani.

Unabisha nini sasa? Situation Room w/ Wolf Blitzer wameonyesha mahojiano kama unabisha nenda kwenye site ukaitafute....aibuuu tupu

 

[The Truth]

duh, sijawahi kuona ponjoro mzushi kama wewe bwahahahaha!! mama yake Obama alikufa kwa Ovarian Cancer na sio Cervical Cancer....na Ovarian Cancer haisababishwi na hizo genital warts/HPV, kwahiyo sio sexually transimitted!! nilishakuonya huko nyuma kuwa zicheck facts zako kabla ya kubandika!! unajitia aibu na watu kutokuchukulia siriasi kwa huu utoto wako!!

sijui ni kiasi gani unajua kuhusu Cervical Cancer!? anywayz hiyo ni topic nyingine kwa siku nyingine....una-sound kama ancestors wako walitokea kwenye zile slums za Calcuta au Madrassa, kule ambapo watu(ponjoros) wanakunya na kukojoa ndani ya movie theater(s)...yaani "upstairs" kuna gogoro. shame on you Manji's Supporter, you're today's worst in the world....

have a nice day.

Yeah and you have the "facts" right? I assume you have seen the poor woman's medical records to call me a liar...eh? As usual you missed the whole point of my post and nit picked on a part that hardly change anything. The main point is Obama's Kenyan family is full of losers, and questionable characters starting with his deadbeat dad. I don't see how you can look at them and arrive at a different conclusion. I also believe Obama's low IQ is probably trait he inherited from his Kenyan family.

 

[The Truth]

I feel bad for the good citizens of Denver, Colorado U.S.A because their community is about to be invaded by liberals, gays, criminals and degenerates masquerading as a political convention. I forecast a mini to full blown wave of criminal behavior during the democratic convention. A dramatic drop in tranquility, average intelligence will also be experienced. All as a result or from the abomination known as Obamanation.

 

[YNIM]

Unabisha nini sasa? Situation Room w/ Wolf Blitzer wameonyesha mahojiano kama unabisha nenda kwenye site ukaitafute....aibuuu tupu

nani kabisha? suala si hiyo story kama ipo/haipo...suala hapa ni kwamba story nzima ni upuuzi mtupu!! wewe unawajua na kuwa saidia ndugu zako wa nyumba ndogoz? tokana na mazingira na story ya Obama wewe unadhani ni haki yake kutuma vijisenti Kenya? ebu kuwa serious kidogo saa ingine na uache ushabiki!!

Wolf na CNN nzima wamelosti, watu wanaangalia FOX na MSNBC ndio maana wakina Lou Dobbs, yeye Wolf na Li-CNN zima wamekuwa na stories siku hizi za ajabu kiasi kwamba wapo out of touch!! Habari za Onyango zinapendeza FNL kwa Hannity au Bill O lakini sio kwa situation room kwa ile time slot!!! shame...wapo desperate na ratings, hawana lolote.

who cares about Onyango bwoy? wewe utalosti vipi nyang'anyang'a wakati msua alikuwa na PhD ya Harvard...ni mijuti ambayo itakuwa ili-squander resources na opportunities!! pia Obama kaitoa kivyake, sio kama mipesa ya urithi ambayo Cindy anamchikichia half sista lake! LOL

 

[YNIM]

Countdown is ON!! Keith anasema mijumba nane ya McCain ni McNopoly...hahahaha na rafiki yako Sean Hannity ni finalist leo kwenye, "today's worst in the world."

 

[YNIM]

Yeah and you have the "facts" right? I assume you have seen the poor woman's medical records to call me a liar...eh? As usual you missed the whole point of my post and nit picked on a part that hardly change anything. The main point is Obama's Kenyan family is full of losers, and questionable characters starting with his deadbeat dad. I don't see how you can look at them and arrive at a different conclusion. I also believe Obama's low IQ is probably trait he inherited from his Kenyan family.

sawa bana, lakini tatizo ni kuwa huna mpya kila kitu ni kile kile toka uanze kuchangia ktk hii thread unabadili maneno tu!! Ile ya Cervical Cancer badala ya Ovarian Cancer kama wewe unaona ni none issue basi matatizo yako ni makubwa kushindwa ninavyofikiria....

nibandikia basi hapa hizo medical records za mama yake Obama...bandika.

 

[YNIM]

Seems like VP ni Joe Biden....maana Bayh na Kaine wameshaambiwa kuwa sio wao!!

McCain asahau PA vinginevyo labda achague Tom Ridge....Biden hata hivyo ni chaguo zuri sana, ua ananikumbusha Uncle Ted jinsi anavyoua.